{"id":351453,"date":"2026-03-28T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351453\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:32:08","slug":"christchurch-store-workers-arm-broken-in-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351453\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch store worker&#8217;s arm broken in robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A worker was assaulted and had their arm broken after four masked offenders robbed a store in Christchurch last night. <\/p>\n<p>Police were called to Main South Road in Hornby at 7.30pm last night when four people entered the store, stole items, and assaulted a worker. <\/p>\n<p>They then fled the scene in a stolen vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>The injured worker was taken to Christchurch Hospital in an ambulance, suffering a broken arm. <\/p>\n<p>The stolen vehicle was later located on Ellesmere Road in Lincoln. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, the alleged offenders were not with the vehicle and have yet to be found,&#8221; Sargeant Rebecca Podmore said.<\/p>\n<p>Police urged anyone with information about the incident or the alleged offenders to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you were in the Main South Road, or surrounding areas, in Hornby between 7pm and 8pm last night, and saw a grey Toyota Rav 4 or have dashcam\/CCTV footage of the vehicle, please get in touch,&#8221; Podmore said.<\/p>\n<p>Information could be provided through 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A worker was assaulted and had their arm broken after four masked offenders robbed a store in Christchurch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[158,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-351453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-christchurch-canterbury","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}